Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Geography
Civilizations
World Religions
100
Traders traveling together
caravan
100
A religious leader who told the Israelites what God wanted them to do
prophet
100
"Mesopotamia" means this in Greek
between the rivers / between two rivers
100
Name one of the weapons invented by the Assyrians
Possible answers:
chariot, battering ram, crossbow, catapult
100
belief in one God
monotheism
200
To force someone to live in another country
exile
200
Belief in many gods
polytheism
200
name of an area in Mesopotamia that was especially good for agriculture
Fertile Crescent
200
These people ruled the Mediterranean Sea by telling other countries it had sea monsters in it.
Phonecians
200
The 3 world religions that came from Mesopotamia are ...
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
300
Many people and territories that are controlled by one government
empire
300
A time when there is so little food that many people starve
famine
300
capital city of the empire stretching from Turkey to the Persian Gulf
Babylon / Babylonia
300
Two challenges faced by these people were famine and slavery
Israelites
300
Christians worship in a church. Jewish people worship at a
synagogue
400
early Mesopotamian (Sumerian) writing made up of wedges and lines
cuneiform
400
a professional writer
scribe
400
cotton, cloth, and spices were sold here
bazaar
400
These people developed the world's first writing system
Sumerians
400
The first 5 books of the Old Testament
Torah
500
A scattering of people
diaspora
500
the first recorded set of laws
Hammurabi's Code
500
where the Israelites eventually settled
Canaan
500
The greatest king of the Chaldeans
Nebuchadnezzar (the II)
500
What is this symbol called?
Star of David